Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Off the Shelf

As a young writer, I was often told that you needed to master
all the rules of writing before you could go about breaking them, and this
statement is illustrated no better than in the work of George Saunders. In
his short story collection TENTH
OF DECEMBER, Saunders demonstrates clearly that he can master and twist
every rule to his will, but in his first novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, he
takes this a step further, breaking every single rule in the most beautiful
and poignant way possible. READ
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